This term the KS1 art club focused on the autumn season finishing off with the anticipation of Christmas with all the excitement it brings.
We started off with making wooden birds and foxes using natural materials to create simple but striking ornaments.
In our second session we created oil and wax pastel rubbings using various leaves and produced some highly creative and very original animal collages using dried leaves of different shapes, colours and sizes.
In the third session we used paints, brushes and our own hands and fingers to create autumnal trees. We used our hands and forearms to draw around to create a tree trunk. Painting the simple hand shape in brown and extending each finger allowed us to transform the hands into trees. We added extra branches and used recycled plastic forks to scratch the tree trunks to create a texture of tree bark. We used warm autumnal colour shades and our fingers to print the leaves on the trees and around them.
As December approached we combined the theme of autumn with coming Christmas. We made salt dough hedgehogs and baked them to create special little ornaments to keep. Each hedgehog got its own home in a simple origami box made of recycled paper which the children decorated with tissue paper and straw to create a little nest to place them in. It could not be a proper Christmas without paper snowflakes so we made several beautiful snowflakes using discarded scrap paper and for our final session we made lovely Christmas stars using recycled cardboard and random bits of wool and string.
Another little Christmas project was making our own personalised line of snowmen. These were created by using white paint applied with our thumb and finger prints. Once the paint dried we decorated the snowmen with coloured pens. What fun we all had!
I would like to thank all the parents and grandparents/carers who attended our last session and joined in our Christmas workshop. Your help with stars and snowflakes was greatly appreciated.
Thank you to all the children who attended art club this term. I hope you had fun. For my part it's been a real pleasure to work with you all!
Have a very happy Christmas and a super creative New Year 2020.
Denisa Francis